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100 Non-Fiction Books to Read Before You Die

How many of these non-fiction books have you read?
Any single author only appears on this list once, so give yourself a point if you've read a different major work by the same author. (For example: Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky instead of Syntactic Structures.)
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A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
A Brief History of Time
1
Stephen Hawking
Philosophical Papers (G. E. Moore)
Philosophical Papers
2
G. E. Moore
A MATHEMATICIAN's APOLOGY by G. H. Hardy
A MATHEMATICIAN's APOLOGY by G. H. Hardy
3
A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
A People's History of the United States
4
Howard Zinn
A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf)
A Room of One's Own
5
Virginia Woolf
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
A Short History of Nearly Everything
6
Bill Bryson
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (David Foster Wallace)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
7
David Foster Wallace
A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
8
Against Interpretation
Against Interpretation
9
All the President's Men (Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward)
All the President's Men
10
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
11
And the Band Played On
And the Band Played On
12
Animal Liberation
Animal Liberation
13
ART AND ILLUSION by Ernest H. Gombrich
ART AND ILLUSION by Ernest H. Gombrich
14
Malcom X Autobiography
Malcom X Autobiography
15
Band of Brothers (Stephen Ambrose)
Band of Brothers
16
Stephen Ambrose
Being and Nothingness (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Being and Nothingness
17
Jean-Paul Sartre
Being and Time
Being and Time
18
Beyond Freedom and Dignity by BF Skinner
Beyond Freedom and Dignity by BF Skinner
19
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
20
Dee Brown
Capital in the 21st Century (Thomas Piketty)
Capital in the 21st Century
21
Thomas Piketty
Capitalism and Freedom
Capitalism and Freedom
22
Chaos
Chaos
23
Cognitive Psychology (Ulrich Neisser)
Cognitive Psychology
24
Ulrich Neisser
Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
Cosmos
25
Carl Sagan
Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant)
Critique of Pure Reason
26
Immanuel Kant
Das Kapital (Karl Marx)
Das Kapital
27
Karl Marx
Democracy in America (Alexis De Tocqueville)
Democracy in America
28
Alexis De Tocqueville
Discipline and Punish
Discipline and Punish
29
Dispatches (Michael Herr)
Dispatches
30
Michael Herr
Economy and Society (Max Weber)
Economy and Society
31
Max Weber
Fear and Trembling (Soren Kierkegaard)
Fear and Trembling
32
Soren Kierkegaard
Future Shock (Toffler Alvin)
Future Shock
33
Toffler Alvin
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
34
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
35
Jared Diamond
Letters Concerning the English Nation
Letters Concerning the English Nation
36
Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
Leviathan
37
Thomas Hobbes
Mythologies
Mythologies
38
Naming and Necessity (Saul Kripke)
Naming and Necessity
39
Saul Kripke
Nickel and Dimed (Barbara Ehrenreich)
Nickel and Dimed
40
Barbara Ehrenreich
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